Labor
Target stores the target of two-day strike
June 12, 2013Workers who clean Target and other retail stores in the Twin Cities held a two-day strike.
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Female corrections officers get class status for sex harassment complaint
June 11, 2013Over objections of Bureau of Prisons, the federal Justice Department agreed that female federal prison corrections officers, employed at the Coleman complex, suffered sexual harassment as a class.
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Today in labor history: University of Alabama desegregated
June 11, 2013Fifty years ago today, two Black students, James Hood and Vivian Malone, walked through the doors of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
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Today in labor history: Kennedy signs bill to overcome sexism in pay
June 10, 2013On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act aimed at eliminating unequal pay for women.
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U.S. threatens to yank trade preferences for Bangladesh
June 10, 2013The recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has forced the Obama administration to decide by the end of this month whether to yank trade preferences for the country.
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